[city sounds, cars, people, motorcycles and cars honked] that pork going over charcoal? [horns honked] vietnam. it could be no place. [ music ] listen to me listen to me there is no other way to see th city hanoi than from a motorbik or a scooter. you otherwise would be to miss it all . is one of the great pleasures o my life to join the river of people rushing through the street s in . vietnam grabbed you and doesn t let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i ve been coming here since 2,000 people the first time i v been to that part of the world, and that is held official place in my heart and imagination since. i keep coming back. i have two. i have a to. vietnam has changed since last time i was here. it s changing every minute ago but some things, for now anyway remain the same. important things. like this stuff. that s going to be good. piecemeal in hanoi and is something they do here better than anywhere else. am officially in hanoi now. magic. a s
Went up in flames killing more people and destroyed 7 years later. Author sc gwynne opened book in england on october 4th, 1930, what was happening there that day . Well, in october 4th, 1930 a 770foot long air ship, largest thing that had ever flown, inow fact, something larger than the titanic by volume is about to take off from one trip in india as part of a scheme hatched by the british empire. It was for its they it was kind of a moon shot. A moon shot, a scheme that you call it. One of your chapters is called pipe dreams and imperial vision. How much was this airship . Actually a nice combination of all of them. Itit was air ship as it turns ot were a bad idea. They were competing with airplanes in the early centuries. Starting in the first decade of the century because nobody knew what where you say going to be the few houren of aviation. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with air ships as we will as we will say as we talked to is that it was a fundamentally flaw
Happening that day . October 4, 1930, is 770foot long airship, the largest thing everer clung, larger than the titanic about to take off on a trip which was in india as part of scheme by the British Empire and it was kind of a moonshot. One of your chapters is titled dream and imperial vision, hows much was the airship . A nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they were fundamentally sound that could be improved. Part of what i am riding about is the two writing about, it is the focus of all of this effort to persuade people that airships were the way to go. A good
During his remarks, chief mere also talked about chief moore also a talked about efforts to mitigate wildfires for parts of the western United States with. This is an hour and 25 minutes. [inaudible conversations] committee will come to order to. This morning were here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2025 budget request for Forest Service. Id like to begin by thanking chief randy moore and the Forest Service budget director for being with us this morning. Thank you both. I look forward to hearing about the justification for the 366 6. 5 increase requested. Although may would normally be just the start of the fire season, weve already had recordbreaking wildfires as is becoming all too common. In february while it was still snowing, over 1 million acres in texas burned killing 2 people and burning 1300 poems homes 130 homes. I me my colleagues from wen states are on pins and needs. Our committee has considered several bills that would support and improve Wildfire Response network
Dr. Andrew wiest sitting in the middle is University Professor of history in the school of humanities at the university of southern where he is also the founding director of the dale center for the study of war and society. He has several major publications, including vietnams forgotten army heroism and betrayal in the aavin for which he won the society for military histories book award. So dr. Rice, i know i mispronounced part of that. But take it away. Good afternoon. I have the today of hosting the america war panel here at the mississippi book festival. And i would like to thank the festivals organizers especially ellen rogers, who we saw earlier. Shes wearing this beautiful dress with butterflies on it. Yall thank her if you see her and course would like to thank the audience members here and in who are in person on cspan for joining us today. Yall are in a treat. We get yall in for a treat. We get to talk about for that cover the entire span of u. S. Military history, all the way